Seed
Sure,
A seed seeds one thing,
A carrot, and radish, and such
To be expected.
Oh, to seed your furrow,
And then see a seed combined from you and me
Grow up to be a seed
Expectedly independently
Unlike carrot or radish, and much else
Permanently this or that
Having no independence freedom read.
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Notes: Seed...reference 'objective correlative'...I heard that term in my literature classes, and didn't have a clue...like much else...thought it was something Samuel Taylor Coleridge went on about, but no, it was T.S. Eliot...and he introduces it by writing up a critique of Hamlet where he says Shakespeare didn't develop Hamlet enough as a character, so he comes across to the audience as incomplete...brb...
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Eliot uses Lady Macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective correlative : “The artistic ‘inevitability’ lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion….” , as a contrast to Hamlet. According to Eliot, the feelings of Hamlet are not sufficiently supported by the story and the other characters surrounding him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_correlative
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...poor Hamlet...anyway, I wanted to find just what is an 'objective correlative'...and the wiki take has this too:
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Popularized by Eliot in his essay "Hamlet and His Problems", the term was first used by Washington Allston around 1840 in the "Introductory...
| Take an example from one of the lower forms of organic life,--a common vegetable. Will any one assert that the surrounding inorganic elements of air, earth, heat, and water produce its peculiar form? Though some, or all, of these may be essential to its development, they are so only as its predetermined correlatives, without which its existence could not be manifested; and in like manner must the peculiar form of the vegetable preexist in its life, — in its idea, — in order to evolve by these assimilants its own proper organism. No possible modification in the degrees or proportion of these elements can change the specific form of a plant, — for instance, a cabbage into a cauliflower; it must ever remain a cabbage, small or large, good or bad. So, too, is the external world to the mind; which needs, also, as the condition of its manifestation, its objective correlative. Hence the presence of some outward object, predetermined to correspond to the preexisting idea in its living power, is essential to the evolution of its proper end, — the pleasurable emotion... unquote ...hmmph...stuck here indented...some malicious seed!...anyway, I know what that is!...what OCs are!...I described it in my old list of 100 things to consider writing a poem...I'd come to the odd conclusion that I didn't much want to write poems anymore, as I'd gotten to the point that I could see them, comparing them to butterflies, and felt no compulsion to net them, and write them down...there is a realm where there are these butterflies, these poems, these seeds, and the old Greek philosophers went on about it...Eliot and Alliston and many others following on...considering, I thought to write up Seed, trying to get at what I was getting at with 'mountains don't move like you do'....Hamlet just moves around too much for Eliot to net!...ral...my biology is off, or maybe biology is off...sperms fertilize eggs, neither considered to be seeds, and yet...brb... quote A story is told about Harry Truman giving a speech before a delegation of farmers. "I grew up on a farm," the president said, "and I know that farming means manure, manure, and more manure." A friend of the president's wife leaned over to her, saying, "Really, Bess, you should teach Harry to say 'fertilizer,' not 'manure'." Mrs. Truman shook her head and replied: "Good lord! it has taken me thirty years to get him to say `manure'!" http://www.exminister.org/Aaron-one-biblical-euphemisms.html unquote That link might be TMI! :) DavidDavid |
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